What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRDDon’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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First master the fundamentals.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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